A Bingham man remains at the Somerset County Jail on $500 cash bail in connection with a confrontation involving lawn chairs and a machete.

Dwight Hart, 64, was charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and criminal trespassing, Chief Deputy James Ross of the Somerset County Sheriff's Office said.

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The arrest occurred on Sunday following an incident off Canada Road, also known as Route 201, in Moscow.

A woman alone in her house reported after 5 p.m. Sunday that she saw a pickup truck pull into her property and Hart load lawn chairs into it, Ross said. She demanded he return them, as they were hers, and removed a chair from the truck.

Words were exchanged and the woman picked up a hoe to defend herself while Hart allegedly pulled out a machete from the truck and swung it, hitting the hoe several times, Ross said.

After he left, the woman called the sheriff's office with a description of the truck and a license plate number. She did not know who he was, Ross said.

A deputy later arrived at Hart's house, where he was arrested without incident. The deputy also saw damage to the woman's hoe that appeared to be from a machete.

Hart was arraigned in Somerset County Unified Court in Skowhegan on Monday.